This collection of 48 lists with terminology was developed by HURIDOCS or adapted from a variety of authoritative resources. The Micro-thesauri are intended for use in conjunction with HURIDOCS Standard Formats manuals, and in particular with the HURIDOCS Events Standard Formats: a tool for documenting human rights violations.
The Micro-thesauri can be used as a starting point for developing one’s own index terms for libraries and documentation centres, as keywords for organising information on websites, or as controlled vocabularies for databases to record violations.
They have been translated into the following languages, often by volunteers: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesia. Micro-thesauri 1. HURIDOCS Index Terms and 15. Geographical terms are also available in German, Korean and Chinese.
Important: please help us by comparing the HURIDOCS terms with your own lists of terms, and then let us know of any additions to make. Translations in other languages are also welcome.
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- Huridocs Index Terms
- Violations Typology
- Rights Typology
- Types of Acts
- Methods of Violence
- International Instruments
- Counting Units
- Civil Status
- Education
- Occupations (ILO Categories)
- Physical Descriptors
- Religions
- Ethnic Groups
- Languages
- Geographical Terms
- Types of Source Material
- Types of Locations
- Degrees of Involvement
- Source Connection to Information
- Types of Intervention
- Types of Relationships
- Types of Chain of Events
- Relevant Characteristics
- Types of Perpetrators
- Status as Victim
- Status as Perpetrator
- Types of Responses
- Attribution
- Types of Detention
- Whereabouts and Outside Contact During Detention
- Legal Counsel
- Types of Courts
- Types of Language Used in Court
- Autopsy Results
- Death Certificate
- Statements Signed
- Medical Attention
- Intent
- Sex
- Types of Addresses
- Violation Status
- Reliability
- Monitoring Status
- Impact on the Situation
- Intervention Status
- Priority
- Compensation
- Types of Dates
- Sexual Orientation
